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Marie-Claire

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1990: With her A-level exams out of the way, eighteen-year-old English girl Jacqueline takes a holiday in the South of France with her parents and her grandmother. They see the sights, the Gorge du Verdon, the Vercors, and have a lovely time. Then, towards the ends of their stay, Grandma rescues Jackie from the unwanted attentions of a beggar. It impresses Jacqueline, but it hardly prepares her for what happens on the journey home when the family stops for the night in a small village in Picardy.
At dinner the four of them are the only foreigners present and the locals are celebrating some event that took place years ago on this same date, July the thirty-first, the main celebrants being a dozen old men and women at a long table at the far end of the restaurant. During the meal Grandma mutters strangely to herself, unheard by anyone but Jacqueline, and then goes ‘to get some air’, taking her voluminous hand-bag with her.
On her return, Grandma walks straight past her family’s table and on to that at the end of the room. As Jacqueline and her parents look on, horrified, Grandma produces the foyer’s old-fashioned bill-spike from her handbag and drives it into the neck of one of the old men, who dies instantly.
At first everyone is stunned. Then, in an atmosphere of awe, an ancient truth is revealed.

This story of some 7,300 words by one of the Whitelock group of writers is a beautifully written tale that will appeal equally to young and old, male and female, as its now-and-then narrative mixes nostalgia with adventure and revenge with romance. It first appeared in 2000 in Konx Ompax, a literary magazine with a small circulation, but a lot of class. The author is highly prolific and, all being well, more of Terry Allen’s work will appear in Amazon at a future date.

Language: English

Format: Kindle Edition

Marie-Claire

0/5 ( ratings)

1990: With her A-level exams out of the way, eighteen-year-old English girl Jacqueline takes a holiday in the South of France with her parents and her grandmother. They see the sights, the Gorge du Verdon, the Vercors, and have a lovely time. Then, towards the ends of their stay, Grandma rescues Jackie from the unwanted attentions of a beggar. It impresses Jacqueline, but it hardly prepares her for what happens on the journey home when the family stops for the night in a small village in Picardy.
At dinner the four of them are the only foreigners present and the locals are celebrating some event that took place years ago on this same date, July the thirty-first, the main celebrants being a dozen old men and women at a long table at the far end of the restaurant. During the meal Grandma mutters strangely to herself, unheard by anyone but Jacqueline, and then goes ‘to get some air’, taking her voluminous hand-bag with her.
On her return, Grandma walks straight past her family’s table and on to that at the end of the room. As Jacqueline and her parents look on, horrified, Grandma produces the foyer’s old-fashioned bill-spike from her handbag and drives it into the neck of one of the old men, who dies instantly.
At first everyone is stunned. Then, in an atmosphere of awe, an ancient truth is revealed.

This story of some 7,300 words by one of the Whitelock group of writers is a beautifully written tale that will appeal equally to young and old, male and female, as its now-and-then narrative mixes nostalgia with adventure and revenge with romance. It first appeared in 2000 in Konx Ompax, a literary magazine with a small circulation, but a lot of class. The author is highly prolific and, all being well, more of Terry Allen’s work will appear in Amazon at a future date.

Language: English

Format: Kindle Edition

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